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From: josh@hi.UUCP (Josh Siegel)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re: Max # of processes.
Message-ID: <9783@hi.UUCP>
Date: Fri, 26-Jun-87 12:09:13 EDT
Article-I.D.: hi.9783
Posted: Fri Jun 26 12:09:13 1987
Date-Received: Sat, 27-Jun-87 09:51:42 EDT
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Organization: U. of New Mexico, Albuquerque
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In article <845@zyx.UUCP> aj@zyx.SE (Arndt Jonasson) writes:
 >
 >How can the maximum number of processes in a Unix system be determined?
 >
 >Our system is HP-UX for HP9000/200 and HP9000/300, but preferably I
 >would like to know the most portable way of obtaining this value. We
 >don't have Unix source. HP-UX is essentially SYS5.2 with some BSD
 >extensions.
 >
 >I also thought of using nlist(3) to read the value of the appropriate symbol
 >from the kernel, but I didn't find any symbol that seemed to be the
 >right one.
 >

I am not sure about SYS5.2 but on BSD, there is a var called nproc and
I used nlist to get at it.  If this doesn't exist in SYS5.2, then..


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